Nussbaumer, James

Jim Nussbaumer composed his first novel – a football saga – at age eleven on the shiny turquoise typewriter he found under the Christmas tree. The book was entitled Reaching for the Goal. While his life has taken many turns since then, his focus on the Quest has never wavered.

Following tours of duty at Kent State University and in the U.S. Air Force, he spent the next twenty-five years in the financial services industry, excelling in a field he loathed – though not immune to its perks. By his thirties, running his own independent agency, he became an experienced public speaker and wrote a monthly column on financial security for Senior Forum, a regional Ohio newsletter. He then launched his own monthly client newsletter, Retirement Insights, which became hugely popular and evolved into a self-help publication with a nontraditional, nonreligious, spiritual slant.

Despite a long, successful career, in 2007 – faced with the pressures of an economy in freefall; the loss of one wife to cancer and two to divorce; the needs of his children and demands of an upscale lifestyle; and responsibilities to panicking clients – he illegally withdrew $100,000 of client’s funds to try to recoup the value of their investments and rescue his floundering business. The strategy failed and landed him a sentence of ten years.

His time in prison has been hell, and has also been unexpectedly fruitful, resulting in his return to his first love, writing, and the series that begins with The Master of Everything. The manuscripts were painstakingly handwritten in lined notebooks (he has no computer available in prison) and the material just keeps on coming.

This book is concerned with making contact with this effective and purposeful part of the mind. You will learn to realize your consciousness in a different way from the familiar way it may have been making you operate in the physical world. You will learn to recognize consciousness as an entity that you create, but do so from behind it. I know this may seem confusing, so for now, and just to buffer the impact of this thought about “you being behind your own consciousness,” allow me first to ask you to consider a couple of extending thoughts. By extending I mean sharing our Reality together as One.

Ask yourself, what is truly a higher order: the physical or our natural Divine Self? If separated from nature the mind becomes a hollow bundle of shallow thoughts, lacking all activity, without luster and authenticity, seeking only projected images seen as form, and without the pleasure of being real, or, let’s say Divine. I do realize we’re just beginning our journey together through this book, but for now consider a projected image being something the world has taught us to see since our birth into this world. Something your physical past has taught you to picture in your mind.

Imagine a place of insightful activity that you’re able to find somewhere in your mind—a place where the confusing possibilities about your consciousness are cleared away, and the absolute is brought forward. This place exists. It’s where your true potential can once and for all be realized, and then accepted. As your curiosity plays alongside doubts, reaching the ever-widening boundaries of your thoughts, you are able, if you so choose, to reestablish contact with the Source of the active center of what gives you life.

This book is concerned with making contact with this effective and purposeful part of the mind. You will learn to realize your consciousness in a different way from the familiar way it may have been making you operate in the physical world. You will learn to recognize consciousness as an entity that you create, but do so from behind it. I know this may seem confusing, so for now, and just to buffer the impact of this thought about “you being behind your own consciousness,” allow me first to ask you to consider a couple of extending thoughts. By extending I mean sharing our Reality together as One.

Ask yourself, what is truly a higher order: the physical or our natural Divine Self? If separated from nature the mind becomes a hollow bundle of shallow thoughts, lacking all activity, without luster and authenticity, seeking only projected images seen as form, and without the pleasure of being real, or, let’s say Divine. I do realize we’re just beginning our journey together through this book, but for now consider a projected image being something the world has taught us to see since our birth into this world. Something your physical past has taught you to picture in your mind.

Imagine a place of insightful activity that you’re able to find somewhere in your mind—a place where the confusing possibilities about your consciousness are cleared away, and the absolute is brought forward. This place exists. It’s where your true potential can once and for all be realized, and then accepted. As your curiosity plays alongside doubts, reaching the ever-widening boundaries of your thoughts, you are able, if you so choose, to reestablish contact with the Source of the active center of what gives you life.

At age fifty, removed from his high-pressured life as a financial advisor, beginning a ten year prison term for a foolish securities violation, James Nussbaumer had the time to absorb the complex lessons of A Course in Miracles. Revealing to him the nature of the prison in which virtually all us dwell, that of the dominance of the ego and belief in separation from the One Mind (God), a Voice or insistent thoughts told him what he needed to do.

From there his first book, The Master of Everything, was born. The present volume, Mastering Your Own Spiritual Freedom is its companion—a sequel. Both are down-to-earth, accessible, illustrating his life and experiences behind prison walls. Readers will find an easy-to-follow path to healing of the separated mind: reaching illumination thus finding in your heart the free will that has been waiting for you, mastery accomplished. Hence the title: Mastering Your Own Spiritual Freedom.

At age fifty, removed from his high-pressured life as a financial advisor, beginning a ten year prison term for a foolish securities violation, James Nussbaumer had the time to absorb the complex lessons of A Course in Miracles. Revealing to him the nature of the prison in which virtually all us dwell, that of the dominance of the ego and belief in separation from the One Mind (God), a Voice or insistent thoughts told him what he needed to do.

From there his first book, The Master of Everything, was born. The present volume, Mastering Your Own Spiritual Freedom is its companion—a sequel. Both are down-to-earth, accessible, illustrating his life and experiences behind prison walls. Readers will find an easy-to-follow path to healing of the separated mind: reaching illumination thus finding in your heart the free will that has been waiting for you, mastery accomplished. Hence the title: Mastering Your Own Spiritual Freedom.

Suddenly finding himself incarcerated at age 50 for an unreasonably long sentence, disgraced financial advisor James Nussbaumer is further stunned when the locker is assigned at the foot of his bunk contains a worn, dusty book no one will claim – a book for which he has been searching to no avail: A Course in Miracles. His in-depth study of its lessons, combined with frank descriptions of his prison life, guide the reader to a supreme freedom of our own, through the deepest levels of forgiveness and a profound experience of the Oneness of the “Christ-Mind.” By turns instructive, challenging, humorous, and elevating, Nussbaumer’s inspirational memoir takes us on an inner journey to becoming The Master of Everything.

Suddenly finding himself incarcerated at age 50 for an unreasonably long sentence, disgraced financial advisor James Nussbaumer is further stunned when the locker is assigned at the foot of his bunk contains a worn, dusty book no one will claim – a book for which he has been searching to no avail: A Course in Miracles. His in-depth study of its lessons, combined with frank descriptions of his prison life, guide the reader to a supreme freedom of our own, through the deepest levels of forgiveness and a profound experience of the Oneness of the “Christ-Mind.” By turns instructive, challenging, humorous, and elevating, Nussbaumer’s inspirational memoir takes us on an inner journey to becoming The Master of Everything.

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